Refugees Within Syria Pose Problems

By

Nour Malas

Oct. 1, 2012 7:23 p.m. ET

DAMASCUS—While international attention has focused on the hundreds of thousands of refugees who have fled Syria, turmoil surrounding those displaced within the country is becoming a far larger problem.

Not only are there many more of these internal refugees, but their movements are feeding the conflict and fueling sectarian tensions.

The United Nations says in official estimates that as many as 1.5 million Syrians have been...